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Positive Behavior

S8 IS VERY SUCC·7/27/2019, 7:19:14 AM·3 votes·4,184 views

Although I still disagree with being chat restricted (explained from my last post), I tried to- albeit, mock Riot's positive behavior expectations.

On this certain game, we had a Tristana top, motivation probably from Voyboy. I'm in Gold, so he obviously didn't do too well. But I decided not to say, "better top wins," which isn't that bad. Instead, I encouraged him to do better, I said that he wasn't bad and it was just Garen being lucky. I reassured our team that we were going to win, and that all was well.

It was looking grim, they took three inhibs and brought the nexus to half, but luckily, I was Taric and we had a Riven. We pulled through, and with my shot-calls, we ace'd everyone on the enemy team who just took baron, and then we took elder. The rest is history, we won the game that was thought to have been an "FF 15."

My mental was disintegrating, my stomach filled with a sensation of boiling. I don't think calling people lower tier is worthy of a 10-game chat ban, but being positive and winning the game felt better than being mildly negative.

I wonder, was it my positive behavior that encouraged our team to success? Was it because I reassured my team who was referring to "FF 15", or "Get me out", the source of our success? (Fully expecting someone to say, "Yes, blah blah blah."

7 Comments

Umbral Regent7/27/2019, 7:32:17 AM4 votes

In part, naturally. Positivity begets positivity, just like negativity begets negativity. Reassure people that they can bounce back, and they may well just bounce back because of it. There's a reason the phrase "you can catch more flies with honey than you can with vinegar" exists, after all.

But, just as naturally, positivity and reassurance are only part of the equation. At the end of the day, kind words can only go so far in winning a match, and the rest of that equation comes down to the actual gameplay. You and the Riven, as you said, turned it around, and the rest of your team followed on the momentum.

There isn't too unreasonable a probability that the same result could've been made with silence instead of positivity, but there's enough known about the human mind to prove that by and large, we tend to work better with people we find amicable, so I'd reckon even something as small as a "don't sweat an early setback" could make a wealth of difference in the outcome of a match.

...but being positive and winning the game felt better than being mildly negative.

And this is the part that I find most interesting in this case. Granted, it could just be the euphoria of a turnaround (if we're chalking up the benefit of positivity to a marginal factor, I don't think you'd fault me for a bit of cynicism) and a hard-fought victory, but, you enjoyed being positive and rallying your team to a victory over deriding them with passive-aggressive comments.

That's definitely something to take note of.

Kei1437/27/2019, 12:10:23 PM1 votes

Yes, blah blah blah.

[galio-happy] [katarina-love] [sg-lulu] [slayer-jinx-wink]

On the serious note. People have alot of practice in laning, so they can play well and stomp early game. But they don't have as much practice to play out scenarios in mid and late game, so they always make mistakes and there are many games where people can make comebacks. Good shot calling can take you pretty far.